Word: behest
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...addition, Kennedy has long been a prime mover behind efforts to limit the political and economic power of the oil conglomerates. At his behest, for example, the Federal Trade Commission is now considering an anti-trust rule that would prohibit oil companies from owning the means of distribution--the pipelines. "Major oil companies use pipelines as bottlenecks to restrict supplies to consumers and to raise prices unfairly," he says...
...mere mention of Edward Kennedy's social life is enough to make an editor's head throb. Little matter that he and his wife Joan have lived apart, at her behest, for two years. Every rumored dalliance poses a journalistic dilemma: Are a candidate's personal peccadilloes legitimate issues in a presidential campaign? The old rule - such indiscretions are off-limits as long as they do not interfere with official performance - has been breaking down in the wake of Watergate, Wayne Hays and Wilbur Mills. A new standard may evolve as the presidential campaign unfolds. Says Boston...
Retaining that edge is the traditional job of the CCA, which currently controls four seats. Their margin on the crucial council votes has come only at the behest of independent Alfred E. Vellucci. And this year, as every year, the CCA is battling to gain a fifth seat. "We could end up with five, or we could go down to three," one CCA candidate said with a shudder last week...
...opinion of our friends in the Jewish community, the guiding principles that have to influence the government of Israel are the interests of the people of Israel, their security and safety." The influential Jerusalem Post, however, argued: "Israel should, of course, not determine its policies at the behest of American Jewish leaders. But the considered opinions of American Jewry should be one of the elements in the formulation of policies that must take into account the possible reactions of American government and public opinion...
...breast but also the lymph nodes in the armpit, and underlying chest muscles. Yet with more breast cancer being detected at earlier stages, the trend has been away from disfiguring if often lifesaving "radicals." Still, 25,000 women a year undergo these operations, largely at their physicians' behest...